I Quotes
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“I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.”
“I have seen how patients with arthritis, crippled for years, have left their crutches and beds and walked.at the biological clinics (Europe). After a few days or weeks of simple and harmless treatments, the pain from which they suffered for years disappeared and their joints became mobile and flexible again.”
“I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.”
“I have seen Ikpea too. Ikpea is not dead; he is in the evil forest with Amende… Pg.70”
Source: Amende The Stream Water
“I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.”
“I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.”
“I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.”
“I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same,
slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones,
icily free above the stones,
above the stones and then the world.
If you should dip your hand in,
your wrist would ache immediately,
your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burn
as if the water were a transmutation of fire
that feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame.
If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter,
then briny, then surely burn your tongue.
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:
dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,
drawn form the cold hard mouth
of the world, derived from the rocky breasts
forever, flowing and drawn, and since
our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”
Source: North and South
“I have seen just enough of society to understand that a woman’s plan for her future – considering her own economic security, the diplomatic situations she might navigate, the compromises she is and is not willing to make, and calculating her best bet at victory, or indeed, at peace – is to be respected. Such thinking could rival any strategy put forward by a general of the highest order.”
Source: Introducing Mrs. Collins
“I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.”
“I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.”
“I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up.
I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.”
Source: Scientology: A New Slant on Life
“I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own.”
“I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.”
“I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.”
Source: The Horla (Horror Classic): From one of the greatest French writers, widely regarded as the ‘Father of Modern Short Story’ writing, known for The Necklace, Boule de Suif, Mademoiselle Fifi, Bel-Ami, The Piece of String, A Life…
“I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson: including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides
“I have seen many a face that was more good-looking — never one that looked half so good.”
Source: John Halifax, Gentleman
“I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.”
“I have seen many beatings
Set your heart on books!
I watched those seized for labor
There’s nothing better than books!”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“I have seen many beautiful places in my life,
But none of them has given me that extra spark like my island Barbados.”
“I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)”
Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“I have seen many good men give up on perseverance. Life takes a toll. They started off so well in their marriage and fatherhood, but as the adversity stacked up and blow after blow struck like a heavyweight fight, they just did not get back in the fight. This is why it is so important to have Jesus at the center of your life as your strength. This is why it is so important to be training physically and spiritually for the battle we are in.”
Source: Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy
“I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.”
“I have seen many lean riders in the peloton, but very few Tour winners”
“I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.”
“I have seen many organizations where there is this sense of purpose in the headquarters but it never gets cascaded down to everybody within the organization.”
“I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.”
“I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would always remain in my laboratory, for the greatest joy of my life has been to accomplish original scientific work, and, next to that, to lecture to a set of intelligent students.”
“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”
“I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.”
“I have seen many things in my life, many things in war and I have cried may times in my life. But when the runner carries the flame into the stadium, and the birds are freed and all the flags in the world are flying, I cry. I must cry.”
“I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.”
“I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.”
Source: Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology
“I have seen miracles in my time, my brothers and sisters. The greatest miracle of all, I believe, is the transformation that comes into the life of a man or a woman who accepts the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and tries to live it in his or her life.”
“I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.”
“I have seen much of human beings over a long period, and I have learnt how little good to expect from them.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.”
“I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: 'Who are You?' He said: 'You.'”
“I have seen my mugshot.”
“I have seen myself backward.”
Source: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s
“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”
“I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.”
Source: The works of William Makepeace Thackeray
“I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever before beheld. They are broad and dense and bright green. In the leafy bowers and caves of their long branches dwell magnificent avenues of shade, and every tree seems to be blessed with a double portion of strong exulting life.”
Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California
“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.”
“I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.”
“I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.”
“I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You”
“I have seen over and over human beings' personal reckonings in the final moments of life. It begs the question: What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully.”
Source: Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
“I have seen people rude by being over-polite.”
Source: The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions